Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān

Title:

Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān
مقابلة مع محمد حسين أبو حسان

Creator:

Interviewee: Abū Ḥassān, Muḥammad Ḥusayn
Interviewer: al-Khaṭīb, Āminah Aḥmad

Contributor:

أبو حسان، محمد حسين
الخطيب، آمنة أحمد

Date:

2003-08-17
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2003 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān, male, born in 1931 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sayyid; Wihbah; Balʻūs; Abū Ḥassān; Khalīl; Abū al-Shabāb; al-Saʻīd; Azzām; Yassīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sittī Nafīsah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Teacher); Bashīr, ‘Ādil (Teacher); Bal‘ūs, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Landowner); ‘Ayzak, Abū Ibrāhīm Zaydān (Mayor); al-Shawīsh, Muḥammad (Wounded); Wākid, Abdū (Vehicle driver); Azzām, Fahd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and socio-economic life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 12:49)Table of contents: Agriculture and economic measures. (@ 23:39)Table of contents: Families and land in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 38:27)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 43:16)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 53:2)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 61:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Sa'sa'. (@ 90:28)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 97:59)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 114:58)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:3)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 146:7)Table of contents: Return to Palestine. (@ 160:35)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

Agricultural income
Agricultural products
Building practices
Children's games
Crops
Dwellings
Economic prosperity
Education
Family structure
Harvesting time
Inheritance
Landowners
Orchards
Peasants
Pre-Nakba life
Self-sufficiency
Siblings
Trade
Anti-Palestinian measures
Armenians
British army camps
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Carpenters
Coeducational schools
Dairy products
Employment
Farm animals
Folktales
Income
Means of transportation
Police
Qurʼānic teaching
Reading
Religious belief
Rural life
Schools
Shoemakers
Social conditions
Socio-economic conditions
Storytelling
Students
Sūq
Tobacco industry
Urban planning
British police forces
Cooking
Dietary practices
Family relations
Farmers
Harvesters
Intervillage relations
Land ownership
Nature
Work
Economic conditions
Economic measures
Family income
Famine
Gambling
Land acquisition
Land sale
Lebanon
Locust infestation
Bridal customs
Dabkah
Feasts
Housing
Love
Marital relations
Marriage
Marriage proposals
Property destruction
Social norms
Wedding celebration
Wedding customs
Wedding songs
Childbirth
Circumcision
Communal celebrations
Desserts
Dhabīḥah
Health conditions
Herbal remedies
Illness
Medical care
Right of return
Traditional medical procedures
ʻĪd al-Aḍḥá
ʻĪd al-Fiṭr
ʻĪd celebrations
Arbitration
Condolences
Currencies
Dalʻūnā
Disputes
Entertainment
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Interpersonal relations
Interreligious relations
Jafrā
Jerusalem Radio
Justice
Leaders
Loans
Maiden
Mayors
Musicians
News
Saʻsaʻ (Palestine)
al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Assassination
Atrocities of war
Balfour Declaration, 1917
British Army
Burial
Disappeared persons
Governors
Home bombing
Imprisonment
Jewish immigrants
Mass graves
Mass murder
Minorities
Neighboring villages
Palestinian Jews
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Political parties
Prisoners
Shepherds
Tanks
Terrorism
Tracing
Traitors
Village siege
Water wells
Weapons
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
Arab Salvation Army
Battles
Border cities and towns
Burials
Death
Defense
Expulsion from Palestine
Guards
Massacres
Moroccans
Revolutionaries
Rifles
Safad Battle, 1948
Social relations
Theft
Treason
Weapon acquisition
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Bombardment
Decision making
Fall
Homeland
House keys
International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Jewish immigration
Personal belongings
Refugee camps
Refugee experience
Return
Route choices
Settler colonialism
Shootings
Suffering
United Nations
Agricultural land lease
al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948
British colonialism
Burj al-Barājinah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
Crimes against humanity
Dispersion
Elderly people
Generations
Capital punishment
Hospitality
Identity cards
Liberation movements
Mistreatment
Naturalization refusal
Nostalgia
Passing on memories
Permits
Survival
Civil rights
Contracts
Injustice
Islamic law
Judges
Land deeds
Land registration
Official documents
Palestinian diaspora
Political rights
Hope
Palestinian national identity
Refugee camp conditions
Crimes against humanity--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Education--Palestine--20th century
Manners and customs--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, Palestine, 1948
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century

Geographic region:

Village: Saʻsaʻ

Extent:

Duration: 02:46:47

Rights:

0
The copyright holder of this interview is the Nakba Archive, all rights reserved.

Identifier:

nn_0041_muhammad_abu_hassad.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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